{"id":275527,"date":"2026-02-05T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:12:15","slug":"obsessive-hostility-toward-israel-south-africas-jews-caught-in-the-crosswinds-of-an-escalating-diplomatic-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275527\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obsessive Hostility Toward Israel&#8217;: South Africa&#8217;s Jews Caught in the Crosswinds of an Escalating Diplomatic War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" aria-describedby=\"_R_11anpfsnpfcnl6bpalb_\" title=\"Activists hold placards and shout slogans outside Israel's embassy as they protest the detention of members of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, in Pretoria, South Africa, October 3, 2025. Credit:   Esa Alexander\/ REUTERS\" alt=\"Activists hold placards and shout slogans outside Israel's embassy as they protest the detention of members of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, in Pretoria, South Africa, October 3, 2025.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1428\" height=\"1680\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/591483-2.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz x193iq5w xh8yej3 xyq6kys xl1xv1r x1s8dy9j x5yr21d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Activists hold placards and shout slogans outside Israel&#8217;s embassy as they protest the detention of members of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, in Pretoria, South Africa, October 3, 2025. Credit:   Esa Alexander\/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">Jewish leaders in South Africa decry Pretoria&#8217;s move as &#8216;rash, extreme and serious&#8217; after Israel&#8217;s envoy was declared persona non grata, prompting Jerusalem to expel South Africa&#8217;s Ramallah-based envoy. As the ruling ANC&#8217;s hostility has grown, opposition figures have sought alternative channels to engage Israel, while Israel&#8217;s outreach to a tribal leader may have been seen by the ANC as the &#8216;final straw&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activists hold placards and shout slogans outside Israel&#8217;s embassy as they protest the detention of members of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,10394,43,9517],"class_list":["post-275527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jewish-world","tag-news","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}